{"id":1591,"date":"2019-02-28T10:09:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T10:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.incirliseviye.com\/2019\/02\/28\/chelsea-owner-roman-abramovich-emigrates-to-israel\/"},"modified":"2019-02-28T10:09:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T10:09:11","slug":"chelsea-owner-roman-abramovich-emigrates-to-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=1591","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich emigrates to Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div> The Russian-born backer of the Blues has been granted citizenship of the country and has reportedly bought a property in Tel Aviv <\/div>\n<div>   <\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Roman Abramovich, the multibillionaire owner of Chelsea, has formally taken up Israeli citizenship after not yet receiving a renewed visa to the UK.<\/p>\n<p>His visa for the UK expired last month, with more rigorous regulations put in place by the UK government following the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, Abramovich decided to leave the country and take up citizenship of Israeli, where he is eligible to live\u00a0due to the Law of Return\u00a0which allows followers of the Jewish faith\u00a0to move to the country.<\/p>\n<div>  <span>Article continues below<\/span> <\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Editors&#039; Picks<\/h3>\n<p>    Sarri vindicated for dropping Kepa as Chelsea &amp; Pedro impress in Spurs win    Magnificent Mane takes centre stage as league leaders Liverpool put on a five-star show    Lukaku sends reminder that his Man Utd career is far from over    Man City monitoring Barcelona &amp; Chelsea target Jovic    <\/p><\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div>   <\/div>\n<p>\u201cRoman Abramovich arrived at the Israeli embassy in Moscow like any other person. He filed a request to receive an immigration permit, his documents were checked according to the Law of Return, and he was indeed found eligible,\u201d a spokesperson told Israeli television station Channel 10.<\/p>\n<p>The Chelsea owner, who was previously a resident of Jersey in the Channel Islands, will be eligible for 10 years of tax-free status in Israel, during which time he will not need to declare the source of his income.<\/p>\n<p>Local reports suggest that he will take up residency in Tel Aviv, having bought a property from actress Gal Gadot.<\/p>\n<p>Reportedly worth $12.5bn (\u00a39.4bn), he has become the richest person in Israel.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian-born backer of the Blues has been granted citizenship of the country and has reportedly bought a property in Tel Aviv Roman Abramovich, the multibillionaire owner of Chelsea, has formally taken up Israeli citizenship after not yet receiving a renewed visa to the UK. His visa for the UK expired last month, with more &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=1591\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich emigrates to Israel&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fa-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}